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The City of Los Angeles and the federal government have agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by Elmer Pratt, bringing an end to the three-decade legal odyssey of the former Black Panther whose murder conviction was overturned in 1997 after he had spent...

February 18, 1999, Thursday

A state appeals court refused today to reinstate the murder conviction of the former Black Panther Elmer Pratt. Mr. Pratt, known as Geronimo, is free on bail after serving 27 years in prison for the 1968 robbery and fatal shooting of a...

A former Black Panther freed after spending 27 years in prison for a 1968 murder he says he did not commit should be sent back to jail, Los Angeles County prosecutors told a state appeals court today. But lawyers for the man, Elmer (Geronimo)...

December 16, 1998, Wednesday

Prosecutors have appealed a judge's decision that overturned the murder conviction of Elmer (Geronimo) Pratt, a former leader of the Black Panther Party in Southern California, claiming that prior evidence of his guilt is ''overwhelming.'' The...

After 10 days of deliberations, the jury said guilty and the convicted man jumped to his feet. ''You're wrong,'' he shouted, that summer day in 1972. ''I didn't kill that woman.'' He had told his lawyer he had been framed for the murder by the...

After 27 years behind bars for a murder he said he did not commit, the former Black Panther leader Elmer Pratt was freed last week. Two weeks after a California judge overturned his conviction, Mr. Pratt, known in civil rights circles as Geronimo,...

June 15, 1997, Sunday

To the cheers of now-graying colleagues from the tumultuous 1960's, Elmer Pratt, a former Black Panther leader, was released on bail today after serving 27 years in prison on a murder conviction he says was concocted by Federal officials bent on...

The Los Angeles County District Attorney, Gil Garcetti, said today that he would appeal a judge's decision to overturn the murder conviction of Elmer Pratt, saying he had discovered no new evidence pointing to the innocence of the former Black...

June 7, 1997, Saturday

When an Orange County judge decided on Thursday to order a new trial for Elmer Pratt, a former Black Panther convicted 25 years ago of murder, he left the Los Angeles County District Attorney grappling with ugly legal and political issues that trace...